title: Legal aspects of medication administration.
abstract: The author reviews several cases involving medication errors and advises that one way to make a malpractice case worse is to be accused of delay in informing the patient or family of the circumstances. If fraud or intentional concealment is established, punitive damages may be awarded--which are not covered by malpractice insurance policies since this is an intentional act.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fiesta
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007351:Insurance, Liability; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008508:Medication Errors; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States